I'm not sure how the system operates in Victoria.
My experience is With Juvenile Justice in NSW.
One of our big problems in recent years has been that there have been limited facilities for those with mental health issues,
As a result many of these have been funneled into the Justice system.
This guy is pretty obviously mentally disturbed...he shouldn't have been on the streets.
Was the fact that he was due to a lack of alternative facilities.
We can rail against him (rightly so...he's a murderer) but he's likely to play the mental health issue and there is a fair chance he'll do that successfully.
What that means in terms of his (long period) of incarceration (where and how long) is unknown
My experience is With Juvenile Justice in NSW.
One of our big problems in recent years has been that there have been limited facilities for those with mental health issues,
As a result many of these have been funneled into the Justice system.
This guy is pretty obviously mentally disturbed...he shouldn't have been on the streets.
Was the fact that he was due to a lack of alternative facilities.
We can rail against him (rightly so...he's a murderer) but he's likely to play the mental health issue and there is a fair chance he'll do that successfully.
What that means in terms of his (long period) of incarceration (where and how long) is unknown